Daniel Ayala (@buddhake) is the Founder, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for Secratic, a strategic information security and privacy consultancy focused on helping companies protect data and information, and be prepared before incidents happen. Throughout his 24 year career, he has led security functions large and small in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, higher education, library/information, and technology organizations around the world, taught university-level courses, and both writes and speaks regularly on the topics of security, privacy, data ethics, and compliance.